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Parent Compact Letter

Title I School-Parent Compact

Ben Franklin Elementary School

 

Our school believes that students are more successful at reaching their full academic potential when families and school staff work together as partners. Ben Franklin Elementary School and the parents of the students participating in activities, services, and programs funded by Title I, agree that this School-Parent Compact outlines how they will share the responsibility for improved student academic achievement. In addition, the compact will outline the means by which the school will build and develop a partnership that will help children achieve the State’s high standards.

The School-Parent Compact is in effect during the 2024-2025 school year.

 

SCHOOL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ben Franklin Elementary School will:

  1. Provide high-quality curriculum and instruction in a supportive and effective learning
    environment that enables the participating children to meet the State’s student academic achievement standards as follows:
    We will communicate the school’s vision, mission, and goals.
    We will maintain and foster high standards of academic achievement and behavior.
    We will conduct at least one parent meeting to discuss the Title I School-Parent Compact.
  2. Hold parent-teacher conferences during which this compact will be discussed as it relates to the individual child’s achievement. These conferences will be held in the fall and spring.
  3. Provide parents with reports on their child’s progress.
    We will provide district standards, benchmarks, and critical knowledge to parents.
    We will share progress reports during conferences held in the fall and spring.
    We will provide trimester progress report cards to parents.
    Specialists will provide progress reports to parents.
  4. Provide parents with reasonable access to staff. Staff will be available for consultation with parents as follows:
    We will provide a supportive environment in which families are welcome partners.
    We will encourage parents to schedule an appointment to meet with teachers about suggestions, questions, and/or concerns.
  5. Provide parents opportunities to volunteer and participate in their child’s class, and to observe  classroom activities, as follows:

We will encourage parents to volunteer for various classroom and school-wide events. 

We will invite parents to participate in and observe classroom activities.
We will invite parents to special assemblies, academic open houses, classroom plays, and school programs.

 

PARENT RESPONSIBILITIES: We as parents and partners in our child’s education will support our child’s learning in the following ways:

I will ensure that my child attends school daily and arrives on time.
I will ensure that my child completes his/her homework.
I will support my child with learning math facts by providing time to practice.
I will encourage my child to read each day.
I will monitor the amount of screen time my child watches.
I will volunteer in my child’s classroom.
I will participate, as appropriate, in decisions relating to my child’s education.
I will promote positive use of my child’s extracurricular time.
I will stay informed about my child’s education and communicate with the school by reading all notices from the school or the school district either received by my child or by mail and responding, as appropriate.